Chairs
• Daniel Castaño daniel.castano@uexternado.edu.co

This workshop explores the transformation of the foundations of modern constitutionalism in response to the challenges posed by contemporary disruptive technologies: artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), neurotechnologies, and quantum computing. The Digital Republic emerges as an evolving constitutional form that responds to the crisis of the institutional assumptions of the liberal rule-of-law state, configuring itself as a political community in which fundamental constitutional principles are articulated through adaptive institutional architectures designed to govern technological environments characterised by systemic complexity, structural uncertainty, and accelerated transformation.

Classical liberal constitutionalism, consolidated through the bourgeois revolutions of the eighteenth century and developed during the early industrial revolutions, structured the organisation of political power through fundamental principles: constitutional supremacy and constitutional rigidity, legality as a limit on state power, the functional separation of public powers as a mechanism of checks and balances, representative democracy as a source of legitimacy, and judicial protection of fundamental rights as an inviolable sphere against both public and private power. This constitutional architecture was designed for societies characterised by normative stability, incremental change, and relative predictability in social, economic, and technological relations.

However, contemporary disruptive technologies operate according to radically different logics: adaptive systems characterised by heterogeneous agents making evolutionary decisions, dynamic interactions generating emergent effects that cannot be reduced to their individual components, and non-linear feedback loops in which small modifications trigger unpredictable systemic consequences. This divergence generates a structural tension between the assumptions of classical constitutionalism and the demands of effective governance of technological complexity.